Conveying means for bottle-holders.



H. F. W. RITTER..

CONVEYING MEANS FOR BOTTLE H01DERS..

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 11 1918.

Patented'Apr. 9,1918.

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H. F W Rutter.

place same in the, empty holder. More+ are HEINDERICH FRIEDERICH.WTLHELM BITTER, 0E SCHIEDAM, NETHERLANDS.

ooNvEYnvG MEANS ron BOTTLE-HOLDERS.

veyed from tlieglass-oven to a cooling-oven.

At the present day thistransport is accomplished in such a way that each bottle is,

placed in a suitable holder provided with a handle-bar and witha traveling-roller, after which the holderis placed with its roller on a suitably inclinedrail along which it moves under the influence of its own Weight to the cooling-oven where the bottle is taken out; the empty holder then returns to the glassoven along a rail having a reverse inclination.

These known conveying means have the objectionable feature not to provide sufiicient allowance for the fact that the glassblower is sometimes unable to place the holders with regular intervals on the rail leading to the cooling-oven. In blowing bottles numerous failures occur; now in case of such a failure the empty holders returning from the cooling-oven, after being taken from the rail are to'be thrown on the floor near the glass-oven as in such case the blower has not yet a new bottle ready to over, if some irregularity should occur at the end of the conveyer near the cooling- 7 oven a collision between the'holders each carrying a hot bottle and arriving with short intervals is unavoidable, which may give rise to the breakage of the glassware.

The present invention,.which has for its object to avoid the above objectionable features, provides for an improvement in the construction of the lower end of said conveyers; the accompanying drawing is a perspective viewot' an embodiment of said invention.

In the drawing, 1 is the suitably inclined rail made of angle iron secured to the top flange of an angle iron 2, which in turn is supportedby suitable brackets (not shown), The end of the rail has a shape which is somewhat like that ofa strap; the saidstrap comprises a substantially circular bent-down portion which at 3 extends laterally through a suitable distance, and ends in a substan- Specification of Letters Patent.

tially vertical portion l. At, 5, that is to a say aboutat the point where the circular end portion of the rail begins, (a stop pin 6 or the like is provided comprising a horizontal portion parallel with and preferably somewhat below the horizontal portion of the rail 1, and ending in a substantially vertical portion 10.

V V The bottle holder illustrated in the draw-v ing comprises a handle bar 7, a cup 8 for receiving a bottleand a traveling-roller 9,

Assuming now that an empty holder or a holder containing a bottle travels in its up right position along the rail l,'then the handle bar 7 will near the end of the-conveyer contact with the horizontal portion vof the stop-pin '6, so that during its further movement along the bent-clown circular portion of the rail it will gradually assume a substantially horizontal position wherein it is supported both by the horizontal portion of the stop-pin 6 and by that of the rail 1. Owing to its momentum the holder in this position will glide on for some time, until it Patented Apr. 9, i918." Application filed March 1,1918. Serial No. 219,922. c

comes to rest owing to thefrictional resistance offered by its supports. The vertical portions 4 and 10 serve the purpose of preventing overrunning of the holder.

A process 11 of the holder prevents the holder from shooting lengthwise off its support.

If the holder is supported in the position shown in the drawing,it can easily be taken 0a by hand it, however, it should not yet have been taken off the moment wherein the next holder arrives, then the latter, owing to the frictional resistance of the horizontal portions of the rail and of the stop-pin, will be braked so that when contacting with the first holder its speed is reduced to a sufii cient extent as to render the collision, if any, absolutely harmless. WVhen the horizontal portions of the rail and of the stop-pin have some considerable length, they provide for a suitable support to receive'quite a number of bottle-holders disposed the one parallel with the other.

It is obvious that the distance between the stop-pin 6 and the horizontal portion of the rail should suit the length of the bottle holders for which the device is intended.

A great advantage of the described arrangement is the fact that it is inexpensive, and that it does not comprise any moving part so that it is absolutely reliable in operation.

That l claim as my llIVGHtlOll is:

1. In a conreyer for the transport of bottle-holders from a glassoven to a cooling-- oven and vice-versa, the combination of a substantially circular bent-dorvn end portion or" a rail, extending laterally through a suitable distance with stopenernber which is provided substantially Vertically below the point where the said circular rail portion begins and substantially parallel with and preferably extending a level somewhat below that of the lateral portion of the rail.

2. In a conreyer "for the transport of bottle-holders from a glass-oven to a cooling-- oven and vice-versa of the type referred to, the combination of a substantially circular males bent-down end portion of a rail extending late ally through a suitable distance, with a stop-member which is provided substantially vertically below the point Where the said circular rail portion begins and substantially parllel with and preferably extending at a level somewhat below that of the lateral portion of the rail, the said lateral portions of rail and stop-member ending in a positive step.

In testimony whereof I signature in presence of two llElllDEltlCll FlllllDERlGH WHJHELM RITTE Witnesses H. VERHERF, AZBERT A. i l-lamina.

have affixed my Ni LDGSSGS.

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